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RUSH: Well-known Hollywood "bad guy" actor Robert Davi doing Sinatra's "Mistletoe and Holly." It is good. If you download it, proceeds go to the Salvation Army. They asked me to do this, and we get into the sharing and the giving spirit here at Christmastime.

STEVE SCHMIDT: As President Kennedy pointed out, sometimes when you try to ride the tiger you wind up inside of it. And you've seen this over the last couple of years. Any insult to Rush Limbaugh is greeted with an immediate apology from whatever offending Republican no matter their rank or stature.

DOWD: This shows actually that this is a nomination that everybody in the Republican Party knows is worth having. They know the president is vulnerable. They know that the president can be beat -- and now that you have basically two titans going at it -- knowing that whoever gets the Republican nomination has a good shot at going to the White House.